July 31, 2014, 10:49PM

Why I support the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s divestment from U.S. companies doing business in Israel as the church's contribution to a just peace through nonviolent means, writes Pastor Andries Coetzee. Full story »

July 31, 2014, 5:11PM

In Gaza, hundreds of thousands of tons of cement and concrete are being used not to build structures that benefit the general population that live above the ground, but rather to fortify terror tunnels underground, writes Yaron Sideman. Full story »

July 23, 2014, 5:12PM

Imagine living in Cleveland facing a daily bombardment of rocket fire raining down on your neighborhood. That is the reality that Israel confronts, write Alan L. Melamed and Lee C. Shapiro. Full story »

July 19, 2014, 9:49PM

Israeli bulldozers on Saturday demolished more than a dozen tunnels the military said were being used by Hamas gunmen to sneak beneath the southern border of the Jewish state and carry out attacks on its soldiers and civilians. Full story »

July 15, 2014, 10:57AM

JERUSALEM, Israel – An Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas lasted only a few hours today before fighting between the two sides resumed along the Gaza Strip. Israel had unilaterally accepted the Egyptian proposal, but the effort collapsed as rocket fire continued from the Gaza Strip and the Israeli military resumed strikes on militant targets, the... Full story »

July 12, 2014, 1:40PM

A council statement approved by all 15 members calls for de-escalation of the violence, restoration of calm and a resumption of direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians aimed at achieving a comprehensive peace agreement based on a two-state solution. Full story »

July 11, 2014, 2:45PM

On the heels of the killings of Israeli and Palestinian teens, a new cycle of revenge and retaliatory violence has overtaken diplomacy in the Middle East, but people on both sides of the divide still hope for peace in the long run, writes Douglas Kerr. Full story »

February 14, 2013, 3:58AM

In your Saturday editorial, "Obama will travel to Israel amid rising stakes," you state that our real hope is that Israel will continue/re-open a dialogue with the Palestinians. That ideally would eventually lead to a two-state -- Israel and Palestine -- solution. The problem with that fantasy is that there are two very different kinds of Palestinians. Mahmoud Abbas,... Full story »

February 05, 2013, 10:14PM

SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Hezbollah was behind a bus attack that killed five Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year, investigators said Tuesday. The first major announcement in the investigation carried broad diplomatic implications, as countries that consider the Shiite militant group to be a terrorist organization called on Europe -- which has resisted such a move -- to crack down on the group. Full story »

January 24, 2013, 11:34PM

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' wants to meet with newly elected Israeli parliament members to lay out his views on peace, hoping a political surge of centrists will provide an opening to resume long-stalled negotiations on a Palestinian state. A senior aide said Thursday that Abbas' main target appears to be Yair Lapid, leader of the moderate Yesh Atid party. Full story »

January 17, 2013, 3:49AM

Regarding Charles Krauthammer's remarks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict imbedded in his column published in The Plain Dealer on Sunday ("The meaning of the Hagel nomination"): Krauthammer is lying. Or else Jimmy Carter and all of a dozen close observers and authors I could name, most of them Jewish and Israeli, are all lying. All of these writers have registered... Full story »

November 26, 2012, 3:59AM

Thanksgiving festivity and its memories were diminished this year for me. The newscast pictures showed repeatedly a little Israeli girl jumping off her tricycle, running to the safety of her house at the sound of an air raid alarm. At the same time, in Gaza City, a father, frantic with grief, held up the wrapped body of his child,... Full story »

November 24, 2012, 9:06PM

Gaza's ruling Hamas will not stop arming itself because only a strong arsenal, not negotiations, can extract concessions from Israel, the No. 2 in the Islamic militant group told the Associated Press in an interview Saturday. Full story »

November 23, 2012, 8:19PM

Israeli troops fatally shot a Palestinian man and wounded at least 13 others Friday on the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, and each side accused the other of violating a cease-fire that took effect Wednesday night. Full story »

November 20, 2012, 11:44PM

Israeli officials and negotiators from the militant Palestinian group Hamas, communicating through Egyptian interlocutors, remained at odds late Tuesday over details of the truce in Gaza that the international community was furiously trying to broker. Among the main sticking points was whether Egypt and the United States could act as dependable guarantors of a peace deal. Full story »

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